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INDEFINITE. “Presumably, life emerged in a gradual, long-term process whereby primitive proto-organisms were created in the teeming, primal soup of the seas. Life is still not completed; it is a partly indefinite phenomenon of becoming, not a completely determined state of being.” (Emmeche, 1994). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

100 PROTOCELL LABS. "How many labs worldwide would you say are now working on protocell development and which are the key labs? I think there are more than 100, if the goal is working on different aspects of a protocell." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

SOME MORE THAN OTHERS. “It seems more appropriate to consider life as a continuum property of organizational patterns, with some more or less alive than others.” (Farmer & Belin, 1992). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

NOT THE LAST. "If you and I as humans create artificial living processes and machines that can copy themselves and ultimately evolve, where will this bring us? Considering that Homo Sapiens is a very, very recent invention in biological evolution, we as humans are naive if we believe we are the end product of evolution. I’m sure we are not. So there's certainly something to think about. It’s likely that we’ll help create the next major evolutionary step." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NOT ABSOLUTE. “Life is not an absolute quality which suddenly appeared, it gradually emerged at the beginning of the evolution. [...] there is no clear boundary line.” (Cairns-Smith, 1990). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

HOLY GRAIL. "Von Neumann proved in the 1950s that machines exist that are able to make everything including copies of themselves, as long as the construction process can be expressed as recipes (algorithms). This defines the Universal Constructor, which is a mathematical machine, which has not yet been implemented." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

LIFE AS CONTINUITY. "There is now a growing consensus among biologists concerning this continuity." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

ALCHEMICAL GOLD. "The intellectual part for me, what has kept me up at night, is this fascination with why materials in certain forms are alive and in other forms are not. Trying to figure out the secret of how to put materials together so they dance and become alive." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

HARD TO DEFINE. "A bewildering variety of forms of life surrounds us, but we usually have no difficulty distinguishing the living from the non-living. That flower, that mushroom, that worm, that bird are alive; that rock, that mountain, that river, that cloud are not. Yet it is notoriously difficult to say what life is, exactly." https://lnkd.in/da-Njua View in LinkedIn

REPLICATION FIRST. "Once you have replication, then you can have evolution, but you don't have evolution before you have replication. At least I don't think so." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn